Northern Ireland’s First Minister Arlene Foster has said that the DUP will be launching a legal challenge to the Northern Ireland protocol of the EU-UK Brexit deal. The North’s First Minister said that she would be joining ranks with “like-minded” unionists, including Brexit Party MEP Ben Habib, Labour party’s Kate Hoey, and Jim Allister, for […]
The world’s wealthiest countries are monopolising over half of the current and projected supply of vaccines, leaving poorer countries struggling to acquire their own batches, an anti-poverty report found on Friday. 10 wealthy countries so far have administered 75% of the world’s covid vaccines, while 130 nations globally have yet to receive a single jab. […]
On Friday, the government, after a week of confused and mixed messaging, announced another nine weeks of a level 5 lockdown. One man’s frustrated reaction has gone viral, with his video message racked up more than 800,000 views in a couple of days. Gary Dempsey is a former professional footballer who has played for Aberdeen and Dunfermline. […]
“It will be slow, we’ll be cautious, because we have to monitor the effect on the virus,” he said.
An investigative reporting team at Italy’s national broadcaster RAI yesterday released the full text of the contract between AstraZeneca and the EU. A partially redacted version of the contract was released by the European Commission in January, and that release revealed more of the contract than intended after the Commission failed to redact the document […]
The numbers of doses of vaccines being administered daily has continued to rise, with 50,960 doses having been administered over the last seven days. The average number of doses administered per day is the highest we have seen since the HSE started releasing daily information. Between Thursday the 11th and Wednesday the 17th of February, […]
Wifried Zaha said taking the knee before matches was “degrading”.
Internal WhatsApp and Signal messages seen by Gript show that prominent members of the increasingly influential “Zero Covid” campaign group – officially known as the Independent Scientific Advisory Group (ISAG) – privately believe that the group may not be able to fully stand over some of the promises and statements they have made to the […]
Táinaiste Leo Varadkar has denied that Michéal Martin said the Level 5 restrictions would last until May, in an apparent contradiction of the Taoiseach’s Irish Mirror interview last night. Tánaiste Leo Varadkar has claimed that Taoiseach Micheál Martin “did not say” that Level 5 restrictions would last until April or May. Speaking on RTÉ radio’s […]
Nearly 12,000 people were vaccinated on Tuesday of this week, with a total of 11,908 vaccine doses administered.. The average number of doses administered per day is now the highest we’ve seen since the HSE started releasing daily information. Between Wednesday the 10th and Tuesday the 16th of February, the last day we have data […]
The Vatican has moved to clarify what was dubbed as a “no jab, no job” policy in relation to the Covid-19 vaccination , after a chorus of criticism on social media. The decree was described as “Holy orders” and the Vatican “getting tough” with those opposed to the coronavirus vaccinations, and was interpreted as meaning that workers […]
Ireland imported a little over €3.5 million euros worth of peat and peat products in 2020, while exporting almost a million tonnes abroad, according to new figures revealed to Gript. The figures, which came from the Department of the Taoiseach, revealed that in 2020 Ireland imported a total of €3,552,000 euros worth of peat and […]